Iron oxide copper-gold deposits in the Tennant and Arunta regions

David L Huston¹, David Maidment¹, Kelvin Hussey², Max Frater^3
1Geoscience Australia
²Arafura Resources; formerly of Northern Territory Geological Survey
³Northern Territory Geological Survey

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Introduction

The Tennant Creek goldfield, the third largest goldfield in the Northern Territory, producing over 150 tonnes of gold (Wedekind et al., 1989), was only discovered in the mid-1930s due to the association of gold with ironstone rather than quartz veins. Over the last two decades ironstone-hosted gold deposits have been included in the group of deposits termed iron-oxide copper-gold (IOCG) deposits (Hitzman et al., 1992). Elsewhere in the Northern Territory, prospects with IOCG characteristics have been recognised in the southeastern Arunta (Hussey et al., 2005), and potential for these deposits has been recognised in the Mount Webb area of the Warumpi Province (Wyborn et al., 1998).

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